central louisiana, los angeles, they knew that they recognized in him a figure who had been hurt by life, who had his own life diminished by loss and who knew, had a sense of what their lives were all about, being diminished and having lost things. that was a huge, huge attraction for both groups of people towards robert f. kennedy. well, rick, i can t say it better than mike did. your thoughts? well, chris, i hate to rain on the parade like the professor on this day and we honor his legacy, but he only got 15% of the white vote in indiana. he got 90% of the black vote. it was a little bit of a myth that he was able to pull these groups together. robert novak did a house to house poll before the election. he found that he was doing better than his opponent, eugene mccarthy, by about two to one in the white kind of working class areas but on election day he lost 13 of the 14 townships where george wallace had won to
0 we have had these debates, these particular provisions were reauthorized in 05 and 09. it s healthy we re having this debate and discussion. what s most important, in listening to smart people like pete williams to explain what this is and what this isn t, because if you picked up the paper today and you re a verizon customer, your first thought is, my god, they re listening to every one of my phone calls. my party line. yeah. right. that could that might make a lot of people nervous. i think that s what people think of wiretapping, they think of the martin luther king thing and the kennedys. they re listening to me. in fact, what they re finding out is, okay, i called my wife, ideally my wife in most cases, and i talked to three minutes. i said, what are we having for dinner tonight? now the government knows what we re having for dinner. i want to know this. i care about this. inevitably it s my big question. i know it s totally political. number all this information
let me start tonight with this story that the national security agency has been collecting information on our phone calls. who s calling who, and for how long. this is a good, important debate i think. we need to be vigilant about what kind of stuff the government s collecting and decide if it s truly helpful to catching terrorists. especially and ideally before they attack. we need a find a balance between doing too much of this and not doing what should be done to protect ourselves. i try to ask in matters like this a simple question. if we are hit, and it comes out that the president had the ability and authority to take action that could is prevented the attack, what would the critics justifiably say that then? what would you say if you knew our leaders failed to do something they could have done and didn t? again, nothing is healthier in our country than a real never ending debate on what we believe is necessary to our defense and what is necessary, too, to protecting ou
getting so much hype. the point just made, they might be the first to play in a game when they come out and that would be dramatically different. somebody can still be the first to break that barrier. well the thing that we make a point, the distinction here is that britney greiner, who has gone pro came out, openly as a lesbian. she s going to be playing, but it s different when we think of females coming out to the male sports world, rick, do you think that that s, that that creates the dichotomy here, the big difference? britney did make a landmark reveal, so to speak just a couple of weeks ago. well, you know, men sometimes freak out at the thought of homosexual men, that s true. but look, i mean last night at the correspondents dinner, conan o brien made a joke about it, right? he said see your waiter if you want to order dessert or if you want to a support for gay marriage. like i say, the floodgates have opened. a year ago we might be wondering what all the big fuss was abo
of pique. this is a soft target. not many journalists come back from that thing and say it was the most pride that they had in their industry the whole year. it s a reward for all the actual journalism that goes on. sarah palin wanted to be talked about again. as the damn internet will show, her husband and her daughter went, so it s just interesting. our second agenda pam of the day, rick pearlstein, rick weigel. going on the fly with me about jason collins. that will wrap it up for me, i ll see you back tomorrow. now with alex wagner coming up. what s on the agenda. i ve got the agenda on the mind now. i have no problem with agendas. i ll say one thing, thomas, of sarah palin s many mistakes, the first was ordering a diet coke from rachel maddow, obviously she should have ordered an old-fashioned, am i wrong? we did not see her there this